Production of hypertonic urine in the absence of pituitary antidiuretic hormone.
Production of hypertonic urine in the absence of pituitary antidiuretic hormone.
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在缺乏垂体抗利尿激素的情况下产生高渗尿。
DOI:
10.1172/jci103541
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发表时间:
1957
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通讯作者:
D. G. Davidson
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作者:
R. Berliner;D. G. Davidson
The mechanism by which pituitary antidiuretic hormone (ADH) produces its renal effect has not been clearly established. Under ordinary conditions, in the absence of ADH, urine of a concentration considerably below that of plasma is produced in large volume. With increasing amounts of ADH, administered or secreted, the osmotic pressure of the urine rises to and above that of plasma. With respect to total water balance, the quantitatively more important contribution to water economy is the change between maximally dilute and isotonic urine, since this, in normal man, may involve a change in water excretion in excess of 10 ml. per minute. The further saving of water effected by the elaboration of hypertonic urine is a relatively small one, amounting, at usual rates of solute excretion, to not more than an additional 1 or 2 ml. per minute. Thus, although it is commonly stated that the function of ADH is to cause the excretion of a hypertonic urine, its more important function might be better defined as preventing the excretion of a dilute urine. Recent studies of the effects of posterior pituitary extracts on frog skin have shown that these preparations markedly reduce the resistance of this membrane to the flow of water in response to gradients of osmotic pressure (1). Observations on frog bladder also suggest this mechanism of action (2). It would seem reasonable to examine the extent to which a similar mechanism of action could explain the effects of ADH on the concentration of the urine. Since the change from dilute to isotonic urine is clearly in the direction of the dissipation of an osmotic gradient, this effect of ADH could well be attributed to a change in the